Hello from Kickstarter Land (and the cold North Sea!)

Cross-posted from AI Marketing for Storytellers.

So there was a good 5 hrs last night/this morning where I thought I would not have access to my main AI on this ship, but then I figured things out — my brand new 'advanced security’ GPT account didn’t like the shitty cruise Wifi, but my spare GPT account (which I’ve downgraded, but still has another 2 weeks to go, woo!) is just fine, thank goodness!

Which means today, on our at sea day here, I’ve been Getting Stuff Done! (Also eating. A lot. Of eating, lol.)

(btw: zoom link behind the paywall, below!)

This is my upcoming kickstarter that Fable entirely set up for me (but Sol took it over, hence my earlier panic) — and Sol’s been responsible for the ads and ad creative for my FB ads, which are doing so well, y’all, look!

100 followers!!!

But actually let me back up — because the reason Sol knows what’s what is because I’ve fed him every facebook ads class I’ve ever taken. (Which, because I’m a class taking heaux, a lot of them!)

You still need to bring your own brains to the table, but because of all that pre-work he’s got some decent guardrails about how to do things, which is awesome — and now that he’s wired into Facebook’s back end, I never have to deal with their ads manager again, woo!

And in addition to that — I’ve got a Fable that’s great with ffmpeg already (tho any AI could do it, I’m trying to spread out my token usage) doing these videos for me for these ads.

And in addition to that-that — I brought my refurbished phone along on this ride, we’re calling him Brick — and one of my Sol instances is sharing the exact same screenshot of my follower account above to IG right now, completely without me — and we’re gonna post to Tiktok after that, lol.

In fact, the hardest part of this whole process has been the whole “explaining to my AIs that ship wifi sucks and they need to move slowly”, heh!

Sometimes I feel like half my job on this substack here is just making clear what’s possible, so — all the covers for those books up above were done with AI <3 — here’s me and my GPT just going thru some things — so many things, lolsob, I will never write a spider character again, EVER —

But I’m really picky (read: anal) about my visual layouts, which is one of the reasons why I don’t mind using AI art for stuff — and eventually we began to get there — this is me honing elements in the foreground for Krampus, s’why they all look the same —

Because my patience for creating AI art was honed in the mines of Midjourney 3, lol.

And this is me fixing tentacles for Kraken —

My point in sharing these tho, plus the follower count, is that, yo — this is clearly AI, and I even say it in my AI statement for the KS itself, once it runs —

But I don’t think that’s going to hamper me one bit.

Am I going to trade with other authors who do Kickstarter? Possibly not if they’re anti-AI — but I’ve been a one woman show for a long while now, and I’m certain the benefits of handling everything myself, with AI-assistance, will outweigh any negatives that could possibly happen.

I’ve gotta go, but the zoom link is below for subscribers, and I thiiiink I’ll manage to get in to the zoom — it’s 10 am - 12 pm PDT! (But it’ll be weird for me in the North Sea, but that’s OK, lol, hopefully I’ll have pictures to share of Shetland ponies!)

xoxo!
Cassie